Yes, I know my birthday is 1 month ago, but I only remembered to do this now. I have always been wondering about this. Are there any famous people who share a birth date with me? not necessarily the year? I've been thinking about this for quite some time, actually, since I was a kid.
When I was a kid, I forgot how old, I once looked through this thick dictionary in Indo called 'Buku Pintar'; and somehow there is this little footnote on every pages of the book listing every famous person born or died, starting from January 1st until December 31st.
From this book, I found out that I share my birthday with James Parkinson, English physician who discovered Parkinson's disease. That was quite something; but being a kid, I thought it wasn't very cool. I wanted to share my birthday with Sports Legends or Political Figure. ( At that time I thought the name Napoleon Bonaparte was very cool).
Thanks to the invention of the Internet generally, and Wikipedia specifically, I managed to find the list of famous people who share their birth date with me:
- 1755 James Parkinson
- 1916 Howard Koch (director of Ghost)
- 1948 Marcelo Lippi (Italian World Cup winning coach)
- 1963 Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (Yes!)
- 1973 Jennifer Esposito
- 1974 Alex Corretja (former no.2 Tennis player in the world.)
- 1974 Tricia Helfer from Battlestar Galactica
- 1980 Keiji Tamada, Japan's striker for World Cup 2010.
- 1980 Mark Teixeira, first baseman and cleanup hitter of NY Yankees.
- 1987! Joss Stone (yup, the singer)
Not a bad list, and since my birthday is on the 11th, I will add 1 more name to make it 11. Born on April 11 1981, drumroll pleaseee:
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Alessandra Ambrosio.
Wow. And she's a Manchester United fan.
Now I'm happy.
by the way, sorry for writing too many Is up there. Just realized how full of himself this guy is.